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Cartographers call the globe’s blank spaces “Sleeping Beauties”, those expanses relatively frsee from the scars of civilization. Intrepid yachtsmen feast their eyes on the blue of the map and envision aquatic Sleeping Beauties—uncharted waters where man and machine can be tested—whether it’s the open ocean, a remote fjord, a wild river or a rarely visited archipelago.

Since the early 2000s, Outer Reef Yachts has earned a reputation for building boats that are born for such off-the-grid travel. Every vessel they have built from 55 to 88 feet (plans to go larger are in the works) has earned CE Class A classiffcation, which means they can handle up to 20-foot seas and 40-knot sustained winds. With sizable fuel capacities and their best-of-both-worlds semidisplacement hulls, they’re at home away from home, exploring waters from Alaska to Argentina and everywhere in between.